A crawl space below Leonard Elementary has an asbestos problem, and the district will remove the mineral over the district’s spring break, set to take place April 1-5.

Sam Barna, the district’s assistant superintendent of business operations, said during the board of education’s March 26 meeting that the mineral currently presents no danger to students and is not accessible.

“It has never, nor will it ever, be accessible to students,” he said. “I just want to make that very clear to everyone.”

Barna assured concerned trustees, like Mary Hanser and Chad Griffith, that the company doing the removal, Nova Environmental, has experts in this work and will not allow the disturbed asbestos to get into the halls.

“It’s not that large of a space, so they have a team that is going to go in there when school is, obviously, not in session and do proper (removal) of the material,” Barna said.

Barna added that “everything is bagged before it’s brought through the building and outside,” which will make weather a non-contributing factor in the removal and will ensure that nothing leaks out to endanger students and staff.